If it were broken, then I might agree with you. But we're talking about a working tablet that still gets "critical security updates" (Apple's words, not mine).
That they'd ship it off to Goodwill, or something. As I said: There are so many better uses for an old, but working, tablet than recycling! Even giving it to some random kid on the street would be less wasteful (albeit more creepy) than recycling it.
That's almost worse. I'd be less annoyed if Apple told me to just throw the iPad into the trash. because then they wouldn't be pretending to care about being "good for the Earth" (Apple's words, not mine). It's reduce, reuse, then recycle, in that order. If Apple genuinely cared about reducing waste: They'd suggest keeping it as a backup iPad, or donating it to the poor, or something.
Of course it's up to me, it's my tablet. I'm just not happy that Apple's encouraging the destruction of working tablets.
Speaking as someone with one foot firmly in the Android world, and another firmly in the iOS world: You're too hard on iPads and iPhones.meh......go ahead and recycle it.......that's one less fruity device in the world. the world could use less of crapple products anyways
nope i am speaking to the owners of such fruity devices. when they first came out, it was a status symbol and you got judged by what device you had....especially when crapple was only being offered by crappy at&t.
The most obvious being to simply use it as a tablet computer, which is what I'm doing.
That's what I do with my iPhone. It has a stand on my bedside table, where it doubles as my alarm clock. That's also what my parents do, using an old tablet in their bedroom. But which clock app do you use? I use "My Alarm Clock" (aka "Alarm Clock for Me") by Apalon.
The Darling Bride has a few cognitive issues, so I installed Huge Digital Clock so she can see, at a glance, the day, date, time, everything. It's highly customizable and I highly recommend the Premium version just to support the developer.
My problem is that all of the big companies in this field have dodgy business models and/or practices. I dislike Apple's "walled garden" approach, especially their actively limiting their implementation of standard technologies in order to favour their own "ecosystem" (e.g. relatively crippled bluetooth file-sharing with non-Apple devices, default message apps that don't play reliably with non-Apple systems). But Google's "surveillance capitalism" business model is objectionable in different ways, and to be honest I find it more fundamentally unethical. Samsung's record of corruption at a national level, plus multi-year efforts to cover up and deny compensation to the victims of a cancer cluster at one of their semiconductor plants, showed deep-rooted ethical problems. All of the big players in tech (including many not listed here) have, once they reached a sufficient size, used their money and market position to suppress competition. Etc, etc.
If it's a decade old, it's definitely not getting updates any more.
iOS 12, which my iPad runs, got a security update a month ago.
I'm increasingly running into problems like that. I'm starting to consider replacing it.
I was referring more to new iOS versions
